“Ensemble la France!”—setting politics aside, this was the message the new president of France sent to the world in 2017, later establishing a party under the same name in 2021 1
Just like our message: an ensemble represents an idealization, encompassing numerous virtual replicas (often infinitely many) of a system, each one depicting a possible state that the real system could inhabit.
Furthermore, in music, an ensemble is a group of diverse voices that harmonize beautifully when combined.
Similarly, our goal is to achieve that harmony by understanding the probability distribution of a system’s state, allowing us to “hear” all the individual voices contributing to the whole.
In Romanian, “ensemble” can sometimes be translated as “cor,” especially when referring to a harmonious group of voices, like a choir. We added our r to cor, creating rCOr to give it a more personal touch.
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Later edit of this post. ↩︎